"Agnes Day"

Let's talk about the Knife—or, rather, the dark-hued atmospheric swirls, terrible density, and unsettling uplift housed within the vicious throb that underscored Silent Shout. Shorn of the Dreijer siblings' curdled wails up front, Brooklyn synth enthusiast Lorna Dune does a more-than-capable job of retaining the emotional tremor on "Agnes Day", a cut from her debut EP Miamisphere.

The widescreen half-minute introduction hints at an entire track's worth of beatless suspension, evoking any number of opening movie scenes spent gliding at speed above vast expanses of water (a theme very much present in the aquatic video). Once pulled under into the vortex, escape becomes futile: the plasticky progressive chords and ponderous, massive bassline continue their relentless push'n'pull, false-flagging any end in sight by allowing meagre gasps for air before bringing crest after crest of increasing volatility crashing down.